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by Crysfel Villa, Stan Bershadskiy
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2016
Take your React Native application development to the next level with this large collection of recipes
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Build rich and engaging user experiences in React Native while maintaining peak application performance
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
The progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle? What major language development milestones occur in infancy? What methodologies do researchers...
Cultural Sustainability and Regional Development
Theories and practices of territorialisation
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Meeting the aims of sustainability is becoming increasingly difficult; at the same time, the call for culture is becoming more powerful. This book explores the relationships between culture, sustainability and regional change through the concept of ‘territorialisation’. This new concept describes...
The First Three Years and Beyond
Brain Development and Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
How much do children’s early experiences affect their cognitive and social development? How important is the parent’s role in child development? Is it possible to ameliorate or reverse the consequences of early developmental deficits? This vitally important book draws on the latest research from...
A New Concept of Development
Basic Tenets
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
First published in 1983, François Perroux’s A New Concept of Development analyses the major paradox of our era: the desire for progress and the mistrust of its consequences. The authors argues that the approach to the question of development may be the key to understanding both the present and...
Regional Economic Development
Analysis and Planning Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Regional economic development has attracted the interest of economists, geographers, planners and regional scientists for a long time. And, of course, it is a field that has developed a large practitioner cohort in government and business agencies from the national down to the state and local levels....
Poverty in Plenty
A human development report for the UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
'Poverty in Plenty breaks new ground in two ways. It is the first national Human Development Report to focus on an industrialised country and it is the first to be produced by a non-governmental organisation� While problems of poverty and deprivation are less extreme in countries such as the UK...
by Kevin R. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form. Compared with the more top-down, centrally orchestrated approaches of Western European countries, US cities and, to a lesser degree,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
With contributions from leading scholars in international development, economics, political science, and sociology, this collection draws attention to migration's developmental impacts on sending and receiving societies. Through current case studies, contributors examine the interplay among migration,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2006
In recent years, newspaper articles, television specials, and other media events have focused on the numerous hard decisions faced by today's youth, often pointing to teen pregnancy, drug use, and delinquency as evidence of faulty judgment. Over the past 10 years, many groups - including parents,...
Different Childhoods
Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Different Childhoods: Non/Normative Development and Transgressive Trajectories opens up new avenues for exploring children’s development as contextual, provisional and locally produced, rather than a unitary, universal and consistent process.
This edited collection frames a critical exploration...
Young Children's Cognitive Development
Interrelationships Among Executive Functioning, Working Memory, Verbal Ability, and Theory of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A critical part of early childhood development is the development of "theory of mind" (ToM), which is the ability to take the perspective of another person. The main purpose of this book is to discuss and integrate findings from prominent research areas in developmental psychology that are...
by Thomas Keenan, Subhadra Evans, Dr. Kevin Crowley
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
An Introduction to Child Development, Third Edition* *provides undergraduate students in psychology and other disciplines with a comprehensive survey of the main areas of child development, from infancy through to adolescence, in a readily accessible format. It equips students with an appreciation...
Understanding Child Development
Psychological Perspectives and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Understanding Child Development introduces the main areas of developmental psychology in childhood. Drawing on content which first appeared in ‘Understanding Child Development’, published in 1986, the book includes new bases of evidence and offers an interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
Following...